Recently added articles from Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900:
Coleridge's uncertain agony.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge )(Critical essay)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Harry White, Coleridge's Uncertain Agony Coleridge realized that much of the guilt from which he suffered was largely--if not entirely--a symptom of depression; but he found the possibility that feelings of guilt might be reducible to symptoms of mental disease even more ...
Renunciations of rhyme in Byron's Don Juan.(Baron George Gordon Byron)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Jim Cocola, Renunciations of Rhyme in Byron's Don Juan Although Byron presented himself in Don Juan as a highly spontaneous poet with a knack for the inventive twist of rhyme, his compositional technique was in fact a combination of facility and industry, as demonstrated by the ...
Jane Austen's speech acts and language-based societies.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Candace Nolan-Grant, Jane Austen's Speech Acts and Language-Based Societies This essay investigates the ways in which speech-act theory can illuminate the worlds internal to the novels of Jane Austen. Examining the origins and reworkings of speech-act theory, as well as ...
Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard and the crimes of history.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Lauren Gillingham, Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard and the Crimes of History This essay reconsiders the place of 1830s fiction in British literary history by investigating the cultural fascination in the period with criminal heroes and the urban underworld. Reading William Harrison ...
Masculinity and gossip in Anne Bronte's Tenant.(The Tenant of Wildfell Hall)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Priti Joshi, Masculinity and Gossip in Anne Bronte's Tenant This paper examines Anne Bronte's novel against debates about women and women's influence. It argues that Bronte forges a middle ground between Mary Wollstonecraft and Hannah More, rejecting not only the former's ...